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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

News Corp.’s Peter Chernin: The Entire D5 Interview With Kara Swisher

Nothing like getting the opportunity to verbally harass the new boss right before he turns out to be the new boss!
Here’s the interview I did with News Corp. No. 2, President and COO Peter Chernin. Of course, we discuss–well, I question the media giant’s ethics and Chernin defends them–the then-pending bid to buy Dow Jones [...]

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

News Corp.’s Peter Chernin Talking Digital at D5

While News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch usually gets all the attention, here are highlights from an interview I did with the company’s President and COO Peter Chernin in late May at D5.
We’ll have the entire interview up soon, as well as all the interviews from our conference, but take a peek at what Chernin thinks [...]

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Friday, June 29, 2007

NBC-News Corp. NewCo. Has No Name, but CEO Now Has One

So yesterday in a very short post, I said the $1 billion valuation that NBC Universal and News Corp. were reportedly putting on its online video joint venture was, shall we say, premature.
Here’s why: No users, no track record and no revelations about what it is actually going to look like. Also no firm launch [...]

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Monday, June 4, 2007

D Wrap-Up: The Not-Bill-and-Steve Edition

We hope you’ve enjoyed our show. Walt and I certainly did, and I think we both felt it was our best D thus far.
And that’s without what was clearly the blockbuster joint interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of Apple, which got a mountain of attention, as it deserves for both its historic [...]

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Countdown to D: All Things Digital

We’re all in Carlsbad, Calif., now, getting ready for our fifth D: All Things Digital conference, which will begin tomorrow night.
So here’s one of my movies to show you how we prepare for the annual conference, which is highlighted this year by a joint interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, the twin [...]

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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Some Fair and Balanced Questions for News Corp.

Walt and I usually never let the tech and media poobahs we have onstage at our annual D conference know in advance any of the questions we plan to ask them. We think it keeps things lively, and also allows us flexibility to change our topics depending on the news at the moment.

But it’ll be [...]

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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